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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1925
Page
4
A column notes that American women improve with age and discuss beauty standards, health, and business activity. It critiques tourist camps and the auto hobo problem, proposing better camps priced to reflect value and urging respectful conduct by travelers.
The Athern Railway ran a locomotive nonstop from Cincinnati to New Orleans, covering 832 miles in one trip and ending in perfect condition. The feat, a potential world record, fuels talk of a steam engine comeback and hints that future auto engines may resemble simple oil-burning steam designs.
The American Forestry Association urges that roadside camps be suitable and well equipped with basic needs, then charged to cover construction and maintenance. Municipalities trend toward this policy, resulting in fewer free camps for automobile tourists as many formerly free camps close or convert to paid status.
Herbert M. Lord notes budget reforms completed in four-year plan and references England's 1713 system as a model. He says the U S budget was built by major parties under postwar pressure for better financial regulation. Many American families have not yet adopted a domestic budget.
Salvation Army commander Evangeline Booth cites a shift from young drinkers to rarer cases of drunken youths. She notes rising sales in children's shoes dry goods confectionery and toys as visible economic effects spreading especially in small towns across the country.
Barron Collier launches a citywide Bureau of Safety funded largely by his own money. Through education and advertising, deaths and injuries decline despite more cars and people. A deputy police commissioner leads, with Dow as executive secretary, targeting jay walking and poor brakes to curb fatalities.
In New York on May 13, the Astor home at 840 Fifth Avenue is sold to Benjamin Winter for ten million dollars to be razed for a 20 story apartment hotel. Winter, an immigrant who arrived penniless and worked as a painter, built a vast real estate empire. The city’s old aristocracy fades as publishers, writers, architects and artists form a new influential circle.
The era of the four hundred ebbs as new riches flood high society lists with about 1490 members. Morgin's, a famed Sixth Avenue restaurant, reopens after a padlock incident, drawing empty rooms. A news photographer, Frank Merta, slept through multiple flashes, later dreaming of flashlight photos.
A passage criticizes Francis Bacon as a bribe taker and shameless cheater in his judicial role while acknowledging his impact on philosophy and the direction of human thought. It contrasts his faults with the positive influence of his writings on philosophical speculation.
A moral reflection likens mental barrenness to a curse on the barren fig tree, arguing that failing to be useful when given opportunity is a grave defect and a moral failing in life.
A young Mexican girl from a well to do family aspired to be Mexico's Charlotte Corday and twice failed to murder President Callies. Maria Liisa Jaureguly, a devout Catholic, is believed driven mad by religious issues. The nationalist party seeks an independent church separate from Rome and the Papacy.
The article notes a broad campaign in New York where police inspect vehicles for defective brakes, arresting offenders and correcting issues. The effort includes theatre groups training 500 policemen to deliver rapid safety speeches and a major May Day parade highlighting crime prevention and public safety messages.
Johns Hopkins students examined by psychologists vote cheating as the worst of six teen vices, though the study omits the cheating context. The report notes that failing to think at all is a worse vice than cheating in any activity.
The writer contrasts historic religious persecutions with modern prejudice and warns a nation to stay free of such strife. It notes the Dawes plan progress, Germany's payments, and the economics of underbidding to sustain payments. Germany says it can pay only if allies keep markets open to it.
France suggests payments of one hundred millions a year on account of principal and interest due the United States. The French, of course, will pay, and this country should do everything possible to make the paying process easy.
A celebrated book dominates contemporary printing and pleases readers with its enduring value. It promises pleasure and helps ease worries, suggesting everyone should understand its true purpose.
A short reading voice extols a small bank book as a source of thrill and pleasure. The piece highlights the appeal of inked figures and the lure of the booklet that stands out alone.
The suggestion from Caillaux to US Ambassador Herrick is welcomed in Washington as the administration seeks to cut taxes. Paying billions owed abroad is seen as a potential aid to this goal.
In Paris troops keep order as crowds honor Saint Joan of Arc. Communists protest May Day restrictions on parades for Joans Day. The narrator notes the change from monarchic loyalty to a modern context with English and American ties.
Washington May 13. Charles P. Stewart surveys federal notices from food adulteration to court dress norms. He notes the agriculture department’s watch for adulterated eggs and mocks supreme court attire while criticizing government spending and ship subsidies amid fiscal cuts.
A health notice warns that small cuts from nails glass or metal can cause blood poisoning and death. It urges removing piercing objects cleaning the wound avoiding dirty cloths and using antiseptics with proper wound care and medical evaluation.
A Cincinnati Times-Star notice notes a newly married couple living in a cottage may wake to find rats leaving the place in disgust, illustrating domestic challenges with humor.
Defiance Ohio Crescent News notes a home garden expert recommending spinach and swiss chard as the best greens to grow. The writer agrees while admiring a front yard full of ornamental dandelions.
Questions and answers discuss which presidents had mothers alive when their sons received the nation’s highest honor. The list of those with living mothers includes Washington, Madison, Monroe, J Q Adams, Polk, Johnson, Grant, Garfield, and McKinley, while many others do not. Additional Qs cover altitude effects on boiling eggs, origin of Gringo, German social insurance, butterfly name origin, and food names Bologna Frankfurt Vienna Salisbury Hamburg.
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